9th Atlanta Summit on Global Health: The Race to Beat COVID-19 - DAY 2

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  • Date/Time:
    • Wednesday June 2, 2021
      12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
  • Location: Online
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Summary Sentence: The Summit convenes health experts from the public and private sectors, including senior CDC leadership, Washington policymakers and think tanks.

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Atlanta Summit on Global Health: The Race to Beat COVID-19 A Virtual Summit

June 1-3, 2021

Overview: The World Affairs Council of Atlanta –in collaboration with CARE USA, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) and The Carter Center – hosts its 9th annual Atlanta Global Health Summit. The Summit convenes health experts from the public and private sectors, including senior CDC leadership, Washington policymakers and think tanks, and health experts from the US, the United Kingdom, Africa and India. The Summit’s focus is on the three critical, fast evolving dimensions of the unfolding Covid-19 pandemic: the pandemic’s acceleration of the preexisting hunger crisis complicated by the added challenge of economic recession; the unprecedented and highly problematic effort to launch remarkably promising vaccines worldwide in the race against proliferating variants and misinformation; and the intensifying international debates on critical reforms to better manage the current crisis and lay the groundwork for future preparedness, in a fragmented world beset by nationalism, geopolitical clashes, and acute scarcity.

This free event is co-sponsored by the Atlanta Global Studies Center

June 2: Can Vaccines Win the Race Against Variants and Misinformation?

12:00 Opening Keynote: Rochelle P. Walensky, MD, MPH, Director, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

In conversation with Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, President & CEO, The Chicago Community Trust

12:30 Panel 2:

  • Heidi Larson, PhD, Founding Director, Vaccine Confidence Project, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
  • John Nkengasong, PhD, Director, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC)
  • Carlos del Rio, MD, Distinguished Professor of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, and Professor of Global Health and Epidemiology, Rollins School of Public Health
  • Moderated by: Helene D. Gayle, MD, MPH, President & CEO, The Chicago Community Trust

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Atlanta Global Studies Center (AGSC)

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Faculty/Staff, Postdoc, Public, Graduate students, Undergraduate students
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Seminar/Lecture/Colloquium
Keywords
covid, pandemic, Vaccines
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  • Created On: May 28, 2021 - 3:55pm
  • Last Updated: May 28, 2021 - 3:55pm